Penaeoidea

Penaeoidea is the larger of the two superfamilies of prawns. It comprises eight families, three of which are known only from fossils. The fossil record of the group stretches back to Aciculopoda, discovered in Famennian sediments in Oklahoma.† Aciculopodidae † Aegeridae Aristeidae Benthesicymidae † Carpopenaeidae Penaeidae Sicyoniidae Solenoceridae

Penaeoidea

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On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
DendrobranchiataPBDB
Diet
carnivorePBDB, for Decapoda
Life habit
semi-infaunalPBDB
Motility
actively mobilePBDB
Vision
well-developedPBDB, for Malacostraca

Time the record covers

At least 331 million years on record.

The record covers at least 358.86 Mya to 27.3 Mya. No occurrence read is dated outside 372.15 Mya to 23.04 Mya.

Devonian — about 1 of 190 occurrencesCarboniferous — about 0 of 190 occurrencesPermian — about 0 of 190 occurrencesEarly Triassic — about 17 of 190 occurrencesMiddle Triassic — about 16 of 190 occurrencesLate Triassic — about 33 of 190 occurrencesLate TriassicEarly Jurassic — about 15 of 190 occurrencesMiddle Jurassic — about 6 of 190 occurrencesLate Jurassic — about 38 of 190 occurrencesEarly Cretaceous — about 4 of 190 occurrencesEarly CretaceousLate Cretaceous — about 52 of 190 occurrencesLate CretaceousPaleocene — about 2 of 190 occurrencesEocene — about 3 of 190 occurrencesOligocene — about 3 of 190 occurrencesMiocene — about 0 of 190 occurrences379–367 Mya — about 0.4 occurrences367–355 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences258–246 Mya — about 22 occurrences246–234 Mya — about 18 occurrences234–222 Mya — about 0.6 occurrences222–210 Mya — about 20 occurrences210–198 Mya — about 13 occurrences198–185 Mya — about 6 occurrences185–173 Mya — about 2 occurrences173–161 Mya — about 6 occurrences161–149 Mya — about 22 occurrences149–137 Mya — about 16 occurrences137–125 Mya — about 0.1 occurrences125–113 Mya — about 1 occurrence113–101 Mya — about 2 occurrences101–89 Mya — about 31 occurrences89–77 Mya — about 17 occurrences77–64 Mya — about 4 occurrences64–52 Mya — about 2 occurrences52–40 Mya — about 0.5 occurrences40–28 Mya — about 4 occurrences28–16 Mya — about 1 occurrence358.86 Mya27.3 Mya379 Mya16 Mya

190 occurrences of Penaeoidea on record, most of them in the Late Cretaceous. The Paleobiology Database records this as a living group, and the chart stops with its fossils rather than at the present. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

190 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

38 formations

Dolomia di Forni — 46.39°N, 12.93°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.59°EDolomia di Forni — 46.38°N, 12.78°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.14°ESolnhofen — 48.90°N, 11.18°ESolnhofen — 48.91°N, 11.54°ELiegende Bankkalk — 48.12°N, 8.87°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.91°N, 7.20°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.73°N, 7.17°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.82°N, 7.24°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.53°N, 7.43°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.88°N, 7.28°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.78°N, 7.25°EGrès à Voltzia — 48.64°N, 7.44°EArgilliti di Riva di Solto — 45.80°N, 9.55°EAhlen — 51.83°N, 7.83°EAhlen — 51.86°N, 7.74°ELombardische Kieselkalk — 46.00°N, 9.08°EGuanling — 24.49°N, 103.82°EGuanling — 24.71°N, 104.33°EZorzino Limestone — 45.78°N, 9.82°EEichstätt — 48.89°N, 11.18°EEichstätt — 48.90°N, 11.11°ECintalapa — 16.57°N, 93.27°WØlst — 56.83°N, 9.02°EAkrabou — 30.51°N, 4.84°WSundance — 44.72°N, 104.61°WReingrabener Schiefer — 47.88°N, 15.07°EPabdeh — 32.41°N, 50.31°EDaye — 26.73°N, 106.93°EInsektenmergel — 47.47°N, 8.23°ECazals — 44.50°N, 1.32°EWestbury — 51.24°N, 2.34°WSierra Madre — 16.57°N, 93.27°WOpalinus Clay — 47.49°N, 8.19°ERipley — 35.00°N, 88.60°WEl Doctor — 20.75°N, 99.34°W

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The named rock units Penaeoidea has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed. 14 further formations hold fewer occurrences each and are not listed. 76 occurrences have no formation on record, which is common for older literature.

Penaeoidea and its relatives

Late Cretaceous

Where Penaeoidea and its relatives were recorded in the Late Cretaceous.

Found in the same rock

755 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 85 sites for Penaeoidea, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too. The 24 sharing the most are listed.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

60 references

Each of the 190 occurrences read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. 48 further references are not listed. Entries link to doi.org where the Paleobiology Database holds an identifier, and to its own record where it does not. Relayed as the Paleobiology Database holds them, not checked against what they resolve to.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Penaeoidea

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
Public Domain
Commercial use
the licence allows it

No 3D scan of Penaeoidea was found in MorphoSource and Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access was not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Rafinesque 1815